Professor Constantine Sedikides BA, MA, PhD

Professor of Social and Personality Psychology, Director, Centre for Research on Self Identity

Professor Constantine Sedikides is Professor of Social and Personality Psychology within Psychology at the University of Southampton.

Constantine Sedikides graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1982 with a B.A. in psychology and philosophy. He received a Master's degree in developmental psychology from Fordham University, USA, in 1984; a Master's degree in social psychology from The Ohio State University, USA, in 1986; and his Ph.D. in social psychology from The Ohio State University in 1988. Constantine began his academic career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, as an assistant professor from 1988 to 1993. In 1993, he moved, as an associate professor, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and was promoted to full professor in 1997. Two years later, he joined the School of Psychology, University of Southampton, England, as chair in Social and Personality Psychology. Currently, Constantine is the Director of the Center for Research on Self and Identity. Constantine's research interests are mainly in the area of self and identity. His current work focuses on (1) self-evaluation motives (self-enhancement, self-protection, self-improvement) motivation, (2) cultural influences on self-evaluation motives, (3) narcissism, (4) implicit and explicit strategies deployed to protect the self against threatening feedback, (5) the self in relational an organizational contexts, and (6) the self-relevant emotion of nostalgia. Research in these and other topics has resulted in approximately 350 publications (articles or chapters) and 15 volumes. Constantine is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the British Psychological Society, the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology; he has also been elected an Academician by the Academy of Social Sciences for Significant Contribution to Social Sciences. He is the past president of the International Society for Self and Identity, has served on international grant panels and the editorial board of various journals, and has co-edited the journal Psychological Inquiry. He has also received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Lifetime Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity (2017), the Kurt Lewin Medal for Outstanding Scientific Contribution from the European Association of Social Psychology (2011), and the Presidents' Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge from The British Psychological Society (2012).

I am Head of the Social and Personality Psychology Research Group (founded in 1999) and the Director of the Centre for Research on Self and Identity (founded in 2000).I am also a member of several committees, such as the Academic Unit Management Group and the Research and Enterprise Committee.